At the World's Edge Festival - Radiance

Seven programmes. Four locations. One journey. 

Join us for an intimate exploration of lines as boundaries and bridges within the grandeur of the Southern Alps of Aotearoa New Zealand. With internationally renowned artists standing side-by-side with Aotearoa's finest musicians, the programme is further enriched by a range of free events and performances. 

Radiance explores music drawn along the threshold between presence and distance, memory and vastness. From the incomprehensible scale of deep space to the intimacy of nocturnal reflection, musical lines drift, suspend, and hover between what is present and what is remembered, what is near and what lies beyond the reach of human scale.

• Michael Norris Deep Field II for violin and live electronics
• Franz Schubert Notturno for violin, cello and piano 
• Krzysztof Penderecki String Quartet No.3 ‘Leaves from an Unwritten Diary’
• Johann Sebastian Bach Chorale 
• Arvo Pärt Summa for string quartet
• Caroline Shaw Entr’acte for string quartet